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Crisis Connection Phone Line
P.O. Box 19550
Minneapolis, MN 55419
612-379-6363
www.crisis.org

Crisis Connection is a nonprofit mental health telephone counseling service in the Minneapolis and Saint Paul metro area. We are dedicated to helping people with personal and family problems and crises through telephone counseling, but also through professional training and community education services. Available to all twin cities area residents 24 hrs per day and 365 days per year - confidential and free.

  1. The Crisis Hotline (612)379-6363
  2. The Men’s Line (612)379-6367
  3. Teen education program (612)852-2223
  4. Work Line - moving from welfare to work (612)852-2225
  5. After hours counseling program (612)852-2214
  6. Online survival resource book

Children’s Home Society and Family Services
166 4th St. E.
Suite 305
St. Paul, MN 55101
651-222-0311
www.chsfs.org/
Family_services.html

Main Office:
1605 Eustis Street
Saint Paul, MN 55108
(651)646-7771
(800)952-9302

Family Services staff partner with individuals and families to overcome situations and create possibilities.

  1. Mental Health - counseling services
  2. Creating safety/building respect: Domestic abuse
  3. Community Programming for youth
  4. Family life education
  5. Financial and home ownership counseling
  6. Public policy and advocacy project
  7. Services for seniors
  8. Strong families - increase resiliency and prevent abuse

First Call for Help, Greater Metro Area
404 S. 8th St.
Minneapolis, MN 55404
211
www.fcfh.org

First Call for Help serves as a crucial link between services and individuals and agencies. Our trained information and referral specialists operate our phone system and are able to identify current and ongoing community needs by calls that they receive. Our staff then analyzes these unmet community needs and through advocacy and involvement we work to properly address them.

  1. Support groups
  2. Community meal calendar
  3. Services for veterans
  4. Services for those on SSI
  5. Services for those on MFIP
  6. Tax filing assistance
  7. Housing information for senior citizens, students, and homeless

Goodwill/Easterseals Minnesota
553 Fairview Ave. N.
St. Paul, MN 55104
651-379-5800
www.goodwilleasterseals.org

Goodwill/Easterseals Minnesota provides services for people with barriers to education, employment and independence in achieving their goals.

  1. Employment training
  2. Skills training programs
  3. Community partnerships
  4. FATHER project (for fathers to overcome barriers that prevent them from supporting children economically and emotionally)
  5. Community resources
  6. Youth programs
  7. Equipment loan (medical/assistive equipment)

Hennepin County Children, Family and Adult Services
Support Coordinator Providers Listing for Person Centered Planning
300 South 6th St.
Minneapolis, MN 55487
612-348-4111
www.co.hennepin.mn.us

 

  1. Social services
  2. Abuse and neglect
  3. Adoption
  4. Childcare
  5. Foster Care
  6. Paternity Issues
  7. School-related issues

Hennepin County Library System
952-847-8500
www.hennepin.lib.mn.us

 

Access to Library catalog, subject, guides, databases, Find a Good Book, Birth to 6, Kids links, Teen links, Senior links, Job and Career links, etc.

Learning Exchange
2575 W. 88th St.
Bloomington, MN 55431
952-681-6400
www.bloomington.k12.mn.us/
community_ed/adult_programs/
adults_with_disabilities/disabilities.html

The Learning Exchange offers a variety of customized classes and special events, as well as training and accommodations to include adults with disabilities in all community education activities in Bloomington, Eden Prairie, Edina, and Richfield.

  1. Independent living skills
  2. Personal enrichment classes/groups

Metropolitan Center For Independent Living
1600 University Avenue West #16
St. Paul, MN 55104
651-646-8342
www.mcil-mn.org

Centers maintain comprehensive information files on availability in their communities of accessible housing, transportation, employment opportunities, rosters of persons available to serve as personal care attendants, interpreters for hearing impaired people or readers for visually impaired people, and many other services.

 

 

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